Comment on PlayStation Users Frustrated After Getting Permanently Suspended Without Warning
ultra@feddit.ro 10 months ago
I assume they also lost access to their games. If so, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
iegod@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Piracy was never theft regardless.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Boats, murder and theft never had much to do with unauthorised copying. The music industry somehow convinced people to use a word with negative connotation to justify ruining people’s lives for downloading songs.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Oyster pirates in the 19th century would land surrepititiously onto beaches at night and harvest oysters without license. It is from this use that media piracy emerged. Pirated oysters typically meant cheaper oysters at market so the resell and consumer sectors benefitted while the beach owners lost revenue.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not sure if I’ve heard that suggested origin before, but it’s still disingenuous propaganda. Electronic media is fundamentally different concept where the “resource” is practically infinate.